Other things self driving cars will do (apart from erode liberties apparently *laughs*)
1) Automatically drive to where *you* are and pick you up. 2) Drive you home if you're drunk. 3) No parking in the centre of town? No problem, car drops you off and goes home 4) Done shopping? Car picks you up, or collects the shopping. 5) Taxis? Out of business. 6) Uber? How about your car earns you money ferrying people about while your sat at your desk at work. 7) Highway speeds? 200mph, manual drive cars are banned.
Exactly! And think what it would do for unemployment, it would be amazing! You'd have to find more people there would be so many roles to fill. Not many bridge watchers, but lots of elevator operators. And emergency traffic light operators. Sitting in their little booths.
I'm not young, but I know dumb. These little-americaners thing the "the guv'ment" will be coming in black helicopters to take away their freedom (cars). What they don't understand is that's not how it will happen. What will happen, is people will buy self driving cars and stop driving manually. Simply by choice. Just in the same way people stopped riding horses. The down side of all this is, of course, the horse went extinct and nobody can ride a horse any more...oh wait..
After a bad experience with a 2 year contract with a phone that was only really good enough for 1 year (Android 2 days) I vowed never to pay for a contract that wasn't a monthly sim only plan. Saved up for and purchased a Nexus 4, still using it. Now that official support has ended I'm using CyanogenMod 13 (Android 6) It works. I use the thing endlessly, handy camera, social media, media player, tv, web browser. It's literally my only computing device now. Batteries a bit naff but at least with Android 6 it doesn't use much when you're not using it.
1) First conversational layout for email 2) First AJAX web application 3) First cloud backed app 4) 2nd single-box-search app, no filing required by the user (1st I saw was iTunes)
He's right you know, back when Gmail first came out I was amazed at how it was not much better than hotmail and the email provided by my ISP and Outlook Express. Oh wait, no, that's no right is it? That's not right at all!
Everybody used hotmail or their ISPs email servers. They accessed it with POP and all their mail resided on a windows 98 machine which kept losing it all.
To my memory It's the first example of a web-application with cloud backed storage. At the time it blew my mind. It was also the 2nd example of the single-text-box-searched-all-meta-data paradigm that treats the the backing store as a blackbox db type affair. You don't file anything as such, you just search for what you want. First I saw was iTunes and how it just stored music, er, somewhere and you just typed a few letters from the album name. Amazing how that idea de-cluttered everything.
IMO It's not done because unless you legislate this stuff private companies are not going to something that doesn't have a reasonable return on investment.
Basically there's no money in it. And I bet the airline isn't paying for squat when it comes to search & rescue fees, that'll all be coming out of the taxpayer's pocket I bet.
woo capitalism. .
I bet if you enforced a €10,000,000 daily file for every day the plane's not found, then you'd see so many tracking equipment blisters and antenna spikes on a get it would look like a flying hedgehog.
For those of us outside the US, can we get some context? What's Fast Broadband? 10Mbps? 100? 1000? What's Slow Broadband? 1? 10? 100? Here in the UK I have FTTC (fibre to the curb) which gets me 80 over 20. Without FTTC you get 5-10 off of ADSL2+. So theoretically I can stream a blu ray. I can download anything faster than I need. That's £26 a month + the £14 for the phone line.
There's also cable internet up to 100.
Also you can get FTTP (fibre to the premises) but I have no idea what the point of that would be
Also there are schemes like "Verified by Visa" where you are asked for 3 random letters from your password which is of a minimum required strength. That works over the phone.
Other security features and tings that have been rolled out in the UK and probably the rest of the EU: 2 factor authentication for your banking - your bank sends you a little doohickey which you put a pin in and in generates a short key. NFC payments, pay by swiping your card over the top of the machine (£20 max)
Then again, in the US you have Google wallet and NFC payments on your phone? Which is in some ways even more advanced than what we have here!
Yes, well, when all of the parties are basically the same and voter apathy is almost total what do you expect? People in power want to stay in power. Our system evolves people engineered to keep it.
Here's some more useful information from the TFA that I never knew and is interesting:
"What it means in ‘layman’s’ term is that if I am distributing software which has code from various developers I don’t really have any right to defend the project in case of any conflict. The code authors own the copyright thus only he/she can engage. What [Contributor License Agreements] do is grant me, the distributor, rights of that code so I can defend it without having each code writer to intervene. It becomes easier if a projects has hundreds of contributors. So in case of FSF or Apache the primary goal is ‘defense’ of the project."
So I guess this is necessary otherwise anyone could just take the name, logo and source code and make "My New Ubuntu 20.54" and there is nothing Canonical could do about it without getting written permission from every single developer with at least one line of code in the Ubuntu and upstream source base.
Slashdot Mirror
Talk about your poisoned chalice.
Oh go oooon. Look at all the oil!
And gold!
Who them? Friendly locals, nothing to worry about...
I reserve the right to steal that and change it to:
There are two types of Tory, Millionaires and Suckers
Suckers' not very British is it.
Um...
and Idiots. ...
and Morons.
and The Gullible Working Classes
and The Racist Underclasses
and The Great Unwashed
I'll work on that.
WHAT IN THE EVER LOVING F IS GOING ON?!?!
I thought slashdot was a tech site for tech people.
Yet I see statements saying "AI goes slow"...
Jesus wept...
Other things self driving cars will do (apart from erode liberties apparently *laughs*)
1) Automatically drive to where *you* are and pick you up.
2) Drive you home if you're drunk.
3) No parking in the centre of town? No problem, car drops you off and goes home
4) Done shopping? Car picks you up, or collects the shopping.
5) Taxis? Out of business.
6) Uber? How about your car earns you money ferrying people about while your sat at your desk at work.
7) Highway speeds? 200mph, manual drive cars are banned.
I look forward to the day.
Exactly!
And think what it would do for unemployment, it would be amazing!
You'd have to find more people there would be so many roles to fill.
Not many bridge watchers, but lots of elevator operators.
And emergency traffic light operators. Sitting in their little booths.
So, a tiny fraction of what roads are used for then...
And no, goods transport will be automated.
Fact of the matter is a computer will always be better an a monitoring duty than a human.
END of discussion.
I'm not young, but I know dumb. ..oh wait..
These little-americaners thing the "the guv'ment" will be coming in black helicopters to take away their freedom (cars).
What they don't understand is that's not how it will happen.
What will happen, is people will buy self driving cars and stop driving manually.
Simply by choice.
Just in the same way people stopped riding horses.
The down side of all this is, of course, the horse went extinct and nobody can ride a horse any more.
And have Bill Gates switch off the internet to save your children.
After a bad experience with a 2 year contract with a phone that was only really good enough for 1 year (Android 2 days)
I vowed never to pay for a contract that wasn't a monthly sim only plan.
Saved up for and purchased a Nexus 4, still using it.
Now that official support has ended I'm using CyanogenMod 13 (Android 6)
It works.
I use the thing endlessly, handy camera, social media, media player, tv, web browser.
It's literally my only computing device now.
Batteries a bit naff but at least with Android 6 it doesn't use much when you're not using it.
Ah, that was a Serial Experiment Lain reference, sorry.
w0000! 8D
You're right!
I'll go let the MD and the shareholders.... ..oh wait.
*annoyed grunt*
hear, hear.
"Dimbulbs" is my new favourite plural.
Only if you don't run the add-in which puts "Beta" back in the corner.
It was several personal firsts for me:
1) First conversational layout for email
2) First AJAX web application
3) First cloud backed app
4) 2nd single-box-search app, no filing required by the user (1st I saw was iTunes)
He's right you know, back when Gmail first came out I was amazed at how it was not much better than hotmail and the email provided by my ISP and Outlook Express.
Oh wait, no, that's no right is it? That's not right at all!
Everybody used hotmail or their ISPs email servers.
They accessed it with POP and all their mail resided on a windows 98 machine which kept losing it all.
To my memory It's the first example of a web-application with cloud backed storage.
At the time it blew my mind.
It was also the 2nd example of the single-text-box-searched-all-meta-data paradigm that treats the the backing store as a blackbox db type affair.
You don't file anything as such, you just search for what you want.
First I saw was iTunes and how it just stored music, er, somewhere and you just typed a few letters from the album name.
Amazing how that idea de-cluttered everything.
IMO It's not done because unless you legislate this stuff private companies are not going to something that doesn't have a reasonable return on investment.
Basically there's no money in it.
And I bet the airline isn't paying for squat when it comes to search & rescue fees, that'll all be coming out of the taxpayer's pocket I bet.
woo capitalism. .
I bet if you enforced a €10,000,000 daily file for every day the plane's not found, then you'd see so many tracking equipment blisters and antenna spikes on a get it would look like a flying hedgehog.
For those of us outside the US, can we get some context?
What's Fast Broadband? 10Mbps? 100? 1000?
What's Slow Broadband? 1? 10? 100?
Here in the UK I have FTTC (fibre to the curb) which gets me 80 over 20.
Without FTTC you get 5-10 off of ADSL2+.
So theoretically I can stream a blu ray.
I can download anything faster than I need.
That's £26 a month + the £14 for the phone line.
There's also cable internet up to 100.
Also you can get FTTP (fibre to the premises) but I have no idea what the point of that would be
Also there are schemes like "Verified by Visa" where you are asked for 3 random letters from your password which is of a minimum required strength.
That works over the phone.
Other security features and tings that have been rolled out in the UK and probably the rest of the EU:
2 factor authentication for your banking - your bank sends you a little doohickey which you put a pin in and in generates a short key.
NFC payments, pay by swiping your card over the top of the machine (£20 max)
Then again, in the US you have Google wallet and NFC payments on your phone?
Which is in some ways even more advanced than what we have here!
Might be able then to *find* anti-gravity particles though! 8D
I wrote a longer post but I lost it, so here's the links:
LMMS ("Compatible with many standards such as SoundFont2, VST(i), LADSPA, GUS Patches, and MIDI")
http://lmms.sourceforge.net/
Ardour (A DAW, but maybe useful)
http://ardour.org/
Rosegarden (Best sequencer, with Lilypad notation support, has actual printed literature you can buy)
http://www.rosegardenmusic.com...
Audacity (PCM swiss army knife ;)
http://audacity.sourceforge.ne...
The Cloudsto MK802IV LE, £80 ARM PC-onna-stick for doing music production on (Toys!!! *8D)
http://www.sonicstate.com/news...
Who needs a Mac or a PC when you can run it all on the CPU your phone uses?
Not tried it myself but for £80, I need to get one and have a go.
+1 for Lilypond and I believe it's plugged into Rosegarden.
Yes, well, when all of the parties are basically the same and voter apathy is almost total what do you expect?
People in power want to stay in power.
Our system evolves people engineered to keep it.
Here's some more useful information from the TFA that I never knew and is interesting:
"What it means in ‘layman’s’ term is that if I am distributing software which has code from various developers I don’t really have any right to defend the project in case of any conflict. The code authors own the copyright thus only he/she can engage. What [Contributor License Agreements] do is grant me, the distributor, rights of that code so I can defend it without having each code writer to intervene. It becomes easier if a projects has hundreds of contributors. So in case of FSF or Apache the primary goal is ‘defense’ of the project."
So I guess this is necessary otherwise anyone could just take the name, logo and source code and make "My New Ubuntu 20.54" and there is nothing Canonical could do about it without getting written permission from every single developer with at least one line of code in the Ubuntu and upstream source base.